DocCheck Flexikon Medical Dictionary Scraper

Scrape DocCheck Flexikon — the largest German-language medical encyclopedia with 50,000+ articles written and reviewed by medical professionals. Fetch all articles in a medical specialty category with definitions, synonyms, English equivalents and section structure.

Features

• Browse by German medical specialty (Kardiologie, Neurologie, Innere Medizin, etc.)
• Extracts definition (first substantive paragraph), synonyms, English term
• Returns section headers (H2) for content overview
• Skips redirect/disambiguation pages automatically
• MediaWiki categorymembers + parse API — reliable and structured
• No login or API key required

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
category	string	✅	Kardiologie	DocCheck Flexikon category (German specialty name)
maxResults	integer		50	Max articles (1–1,000)

Available categories (examples): Kardiologie, Neurologie, Innere_Medizin, Pharmakologie, Chirurgie, Pädiatrie, Psychiatrie, Radiologie, Anästhesiologie, Dermatologie, Orthopädie, Onkologie, Urologie, Gynäkologie, Ophthalmologie

Output

{
  "title": "Myokardinfarkt",
  "definition": "Synonyme: Herzinfarkt (HI), Herzmuskelinfarkt — Englisch: myocardial infarction. Als Myokardinfarkt bezeichnet man den Untergang von Herzmuskelgewebe durch eine länger andauernde Ischämie...",
  "synonyms": ["Herzinfarkt", "Herzmuskelinfarkt", "HI"],
  "englishTerm": "myocardial infarction",
  "categories": ["Kardiologie", "Intensivmedizin", "Angiologie", "Atherosklerose"],
  "sections": ["Definition", "Epidemiologie", "Ätiologie", "Pathophysiologie", "Symptome", "Diagnostik", "Therapie"],
  "url": "https://flexikon.doccheck.com/de/Myokardinfarkt"
}

Use Cases

1. German Medical NLP Training Data

A German health tech startup building a clinical NLP model for German EMR text extracts 500 cardiology articles from DocCheck Flexikon — using the definitions and synonyms as gold-standard training labels for medical entity recognition.

2. Medical Translation Glossary

A medical translation agency scrapes 10 specialty categories to build a German↔English medical glossary — extracting the title (German term) and englishTerm field for each Flexikon article.

3. Medical Student Study Tool

An edtech startup builds a German medical flashcard app — using DocCheck Flexikon definitions as the answer side of cards, with the synonyms list for alternate accepted answers.

Data Source

DocCheck Flexikon — German medical encyclopedia, 50,000+ peer-reviewed articles.

Pricing

Pay-per-result. 100 articles ≈ $0.50–$1.00.